Types of White Collar Crimes List, Federal Offenses

The Deception is the obscure force behind White Collar Crimes, oppose to Street Crimes that use violence. These White Collar Crimes are committed by Business People and Public Officials. Fraud and Extortion are some common offenses on this matter.

The term was first used by Edwin Sutherland on a speech given to the American Sociological Society on 1939. Sutherland defined the term as "crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his occupation."